Principal Investigator
Understanding complex (bio/geo)systems is a pivotal challenge in modern sciences that fuels a constant development of modern analytical technology, finding innovative solutions to resolve and analyze complex organic mixtures. We aim to establish concepts of chemical diversity and complex small molecules chemistry, in systems subjected to (biotic and) abiotic synthesis and transformations, and to develop analytical possibilities to disentangle chemical diversity into its elementary parts (i.e. compositional and structural resolution) as a global integrated approach termed systems chemical analytics.
My major interests are chemical interactions at interfaces in life and earth sciences. My expertise in medical and life science organic spectroscopy enabled him to consolidate as well the fields of astrochemistry and meteoritics, profiling the complex early hydrothermal chemistry of extra-terrestrial parent bodies coordinated together in sample return missions with Jaxa and NASA.
Within the ORIGINS-Cluster our goals are understanding chemical mechanisms of abiotic processes (thermal, water interaction, shock) and processes while tracking the dynamics of chemodiversity occurring on asteroids or parent bodies. We analyze meteorites and return mission samples from HAYABUSA2 and OSIRIS ReX missions.
